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Re: Re: Del Foro Social Mundial, a la Asamblea Social Mundial?
Fernando IGLESIAS
Sunday, 4 May 2003 19:39:24 +0200
Dear Germà
I think that our disagreement reflects two different experiences of life. That of a young sensitive person from the First World that has grown under conditions of democratic rule, and that of a person of more than 40 years old born in the Third World that have seen how to build and to establish political democratic systems, supposes the cost of blood, sweat, tears... and genocides.
And also to say that such * decaffeinated * European democracy that you are mentioning, has created the more formidable political experiment of the human history and the best place to live even known along it.
Let me say it in this way: if our efforts lead to that a decaffeinated democracy of European style could be established at global level in fifty years, any human effort would be worth for this. Don't you think so?
On the other hand, don't I see which are the differences among the WSF and the Assembly that you are proposing, and neither how this one could be * representative * and * democratic *. Neither I do believe that the idealization of the civil society helps in any way (on these temptations of civil society I send to you an article in English that I am preparing * World Democracy or Global Enlightened Despotism? *).
(You can request this 25-page document directly to its author or to the facilitation team)
In short, when I am talking about a Forum of World Democracy you are seeing a group of rigid politicians trying to thrive with people. Rather than this what I see is mass media covering the event: the discussion on a representative global democracy growing from our valuable but small electronic forums, to the planetary level, to the citizens of the world appropriating it and to the social world movements understanding this fight as a fight for a global democracy and never more like isolated initiatives of elitist groups that nobody has elected.
Who have better said this, was Mister Bush in Genoa 2001: * We have been chosen by our people. To you: who has given you the mandate to represent the Third World? * Impeccable. To this it is necessary to respond with global political representation and not with indignation, stones and humiliation if we don't want to become an elite such illegitimate as that of * them *.
Finally, I invite to you to reconsider the expression * global civil society * which I believe to have been one of the firsts in using it in a book (in 1995) but that today it is used in a missed sense: for lack of better opinions, there is not such a global civil society because the civil society cannot be understood outside of the political system. A World Social Assembly would be, I believe, a simple fruitless repetition of the World Social Forum or the essay of endowing it with a political representation that, by definition, it cannot embrace.
My apologies for the length of the message, but I am a bit worried about the fact that we don't see such social movement already existing, such World Social Assembly already existing, a global public opinion already existing, and that everything is mature to open the discussion on global democracy in the * global political * field (which implies to summon the existing political institutions and its leaders, whatever we like them or not as they are).
Sincerely,
Fernando
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
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